(February 16, 2010 at 2:57 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(February 15, 2010 at 6:19 pm)Watson Wrote: Since when is love an animal instinct, and how so?
Love developed in a evolutionarily way, to help bind us as a group/family and to help raise our children.
It is a successful evolutionary ploy.
What did you think it was?
A transcendental feeling of clarity which we humans have access to through connection and empathy.
I'm interested, exactly why would we develop love as a means of binding us together as a group or family? Look at elephants, they have quite a nice herd mentality, they protect each other quite well. They do not need love to do this. Why us?
